Star Fleet 2010

Ok if your following the Catalyst Gaming Labs ‘Drama’ as some call it you’ve by now seen the one hundred and one posts across every forum by a certain Frank Trollman. Look people honestly the letter is confidental between the parties involved by actually posting it anywhere Mr Trollman himself may have broken the law.

But lets look at what is going on here CGL has some issues right? they are a Privately Owned company right?

Answer to every thing there YES

Alright with that in mind guess what, the public that is me and you don’t have ANY RIGHT to know what is going on behind closed doors, zips nada.. and even if they where a public company you only have the right to know if you are a shareholder.

So with that in mind sorry folks CGL actually didn’t have to post their press release but they did.

Onto what Frank has done again, he’s posted information that is clearly covered by a NDA (most company letters etc are) what’s a NDA you ask? NDA stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement, this is a legally binding document that basically says what you can and can not say about anything from a product to an entire business.. It keeps things they don’t want out of the public eye and it is as mentioned LEGALLY binding. The only way out of a NDA? Well that is when it has a time limit on the document or a clause that states you can exit if x and x is met. Ie ‘This Non-Disclosure Agreement will remain in effect for 6 years from the date of signing’ or ‘Once the closed beta phase is over and the product has been moved into open beta, release or if posted by the company you may talk about this product’ etc etc.

So whoever gave Mr Trollman the info he’s sprouting about the internet is actually looking at some heavy litigation, add to that the fact that he is making wild accusations with out actual physical evidence means that he himself is quite possibly leaving himself open to Litigation as well.

Breaking NDA’s can be career ending in certain business’s, in governement well it can be prison or worse but were talking business so yeah.

All over though you have people jumping to conclusions screaming help the house is on fire.. Help this person is a lier, help this person is etc etc..

Look guys the LAW will deal with this that’s what it exists for alright, so let the lawyers do their jobs, let the dust settle and THEN post.. Speculation and mud flicking is not productive.

Just a heads up those emails that Bounce on the exchange have been deleted.

A second Heads up to those using the recruitment Center, IF I get a bounced email from one of those your posting WILL be deleted. I don’t like having my email box clogged up because you can’t enter your email correctly, you can’t edit with out an Email to get the data. So bounced email = deleted post from now on.

-Rob

Completed the Banner Exchange update. if you have recieved an email then you need to fix your banners.

If I get a bounce back.. I find the account and Delete it.

Other wise in 1 month from today so the 28th april 2010 Australian Time accounts will be deleted if no banner is on it.

Another heads up, I’ve noticed all Bravohost.org etc sites are dead. As such if the exchange contains one it is automatically deleted. Dead banners do not help any one people! Those Sites I’ve noticed so far that are active but have no banner have been emailed at the contact address’s. I am about 1/2 way through the account list.

In one months time any account on the inactive list that still does not have a banner will be simply deleted end of story. And any account now that shows up with out a Banner when applying will again be deleted. The exchange is for banners people not a ‘empty’ image box with nothing in it.

Final Updates to the site have been done, you’ll notice the navigation has been adjusted so that it is now nav’d by pages. The Banner Exchange is now on the website again as well.

A Heads up on the Exchange however, If no Banner is present on your account then your banner exchange WILL NOT be Authorised/Validated for display. Over the course of the next week I will be going through the accounts and checking each for the account being both Active and if it is active that it has a banner. If a website is Not active ie: the link goes to a dead site then the account itself will be removed.

If their is a website on an account with out a banner then the account will be made inactive (not validated) and an email will be sent out.

so basically I’ll be checking that banners EXIST, if they do then your account is safe, if they are not then if you don’t have a active website in your account info then it will be deleted, if the website is active but the banner is wrong you’ll be placed inactive, a email will be sent and you will not be turned active until a banner is added.

-Rob